I  earned a Master of Arts and Master of Education in Counseling Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and completed an Infant-Parent Mental Health Post-Graduate Certificate from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.  I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Connecticut, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of New York.  

I have been providing individual/dyadic therapy and parent guidance in English and Spanish for over 16 years.  I currently serve as the Director of Clinical and Community Partnerships for the Child Guidance Center of Southern CT (CGC).  I serve as a faculty member of the Weitzman Institute's ECHO on Childhood Trauma, where I train primary care medical, behavioral health, and school-based health professionals in providing trauma-informed care for youth and families.  I am also currently part of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative training team, a collective endeavor focused on supporting the growth of infant and early childhood reflective supervisors, leaders and change agents in order to sustain meaningful levels of reflective supervision and practice in their communities.  I was previously the Training Director for the Child First National Program Office, an evidence-based two-generation model that works with young children and families who have been exposed to toxic stress.  

My areas of research interest are the impact of caregiver trauma history on parent-child relationships, use of video to increase caregiver attunement and sensitivity during playful interactions with autistic children, as well as how caregiver experiences of good-enough parenting can be accessed and used in the service of healing caregiver-child relationships.  

I am a rostered Child-Parent Psychotherapy clinician and the internal agency trainer in Attachment, Regulation & Competency for CGC.  In addition, I am a DIRFloortime provider and a Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator.  I was a 2021-2022 American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) Fellow, and have written a column titled “Good-Enough Parenting” for a local newspaper.